The Poems of Sappho: Partheneia: Didaktika: Aspiration
The Poems of Sappho, by John Myers O'Hara, [1910]
I do not think with my two arms to touch the sky,
I do not dream to do almighty things;
So small a singing bird may never soar so high,
To beat the sapphire fire with baffled wings.
I do not think with my two arms to touch the sky,
I do not dream by any chance to share
With deathless Gods the bliss of Paphos they deny
To men behind the azure veil of air.